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Hand-coloured etching of a stormy city with lightning and hail, people and animals fleeing across a foreground field.

The plague of hail and thunder. Coloured etching.

A hand-coloured etching shows a city under a violent storm, with lightning streaking across a dark sky and hail falling on fleeing people and animals. Men, women and livestock scatter across a field in the foreground, while a classical colonnade frames the left edge. Italian and German captions run along the lower margin.

Artist
Unknown
Date
[1775/1779]
Medium
Perspective projections Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3048 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1779.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Español: La séptima plaga de Egipto: granizo y trueno

Un grabado coloreado a mano muestra una ciudad bajo una tormenta violenta, con relámpagos que cruzan un cielo oscuro y granizo que cae sobre personas y animales que huyen. En primer plano, hombres, mujeres y ganado se dispersan por un campo, y una columnata clásica enmarca el borde izquierdo.

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